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6. A. OARMAN.

THILL COUPLING.

Patented July 1, 1890.

WITNESSES INVENTOH ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE A. CARMAN, OE \VYANDANOE, NEW YORK.

THlLL-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,507, dated July 1, 1890.

Application filed April 11,1890.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, CLARENcE A. OARMAN, of WVy-andance, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Anti-Rattler, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to anti-rattlers in which provision is made for adjusting the spring to increase its pressure on the thill when desired, or to relieve the pressure in removing or replacing the thill; and the object of the invention is to provide an efficient device of this character of stable construction and neat appearance.

To this end the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts,

' as hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figurelis side View of my invention as applied to an axle-clip and thill. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan View thereof. Fig. 3 is a front view, the thill being omitted and the support ing-brackets thereof being in section on line as as, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a vertical section on line y y, Fig. 3.

The axle-clip A shown is of ordinary form, having forwardly-extending brackets or arms a a, that form bearings for the securing-bolt b of the thill B.

In consi ructing my improved device a plate C is provided which is adapted to rest on the brackets act of clip A, and is formed with depending arms O G, from the forwardly-extending lower ends of which the spring D of Serial No. 347,469. (No model.)

the device is pivotally supportedas, for instance, through the medium of a plate D, which is formed integrally with or secured to the spring D, the pivot-pin d of the connection passing through said plate D and through the ends of the depending arms C 0.

Supported from the plate C is an adjustable hanger E, which is formed with a threaded upper end e, which passes through an aperture in the plate 0, and is engaged above said plate by a nut E. The forwardly-extending lower end of the hanger E is connected with the inner end of the plate D by a pivot-pin (1. With this construction as the hanger E is moved upwardly by the manipulation of the nut E the spring will be forced against the thill B, the plate D swinging on the pivot d. The springD is slotted at its free end, as at (1 to allow it to clear the hanger E when moving away from the thill B.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an anti-rattler, the combination, with a plate, of a hanger adj u stably supported from said plate, and a spring pivotally connected with the said hanger, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the plate O,having depending arms 0 O, of a spring D, pivotally supported from said arms, and the adjustable hanger E, acting to adjust said spring,

substantially as described.

CLARENCE A. CARMAN.

Witnesses:

J. L. h/ICAULIFFE, O. SEDGWICK. 

